On 7 June 2005, the Ministry of the Economy (Ministrstvo za gospodarstvo, MG [1]) made public its guidelines for, and later on the working document of, a draft new Law on Chambers of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) (SI0506302F [2] and SI0212101F [3]), which would make companies’ membership of the
A Law on the Pay System in the Public Sector (LPSPS) came into force on 1 July 2005. According to the LPSPS, its provisions will start to apply to public sector workers' actual pay no later than three months after the adoption of all executive regulations and collective agreements necessary for
In 1993, the employer organisations and trade unions concluded the Annex to the General Collective Agreement for the Private Sector (GCAPS) (then named General Collective Agreement for the Economy), whereby they demanded that the new Law on Collective Agreements (LCA) be immediately adopted to
At the last session of negotiations on a new sectoral collective agreement held on 26 September 2005 the Metal and Electro Industries Trade Union of Slovenia (Sindikat kovinske in elektroindustrije Slovenije, SKEI [1]), an affiliate of the Union of Free Trade Unions of Slovenia (Zveza svobodnih
According to the Delo daily, the management board of the Slovenian Employers' Association (Zdruzenje delodajalcev Slovenije, ZDS [1]) (SI0211102F [2]) decided on 26 September 2005 that the ZDS will cancel the General Collective Agreement for the Private Sector (GCAPS) as from 30 September 2005. The
The Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs (Ministrstvo za delo, druzino in socialne zadeve, MDDSZ [1]) has recently proposed the ratification of the 1981 International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention No. 154 [2] on the promotion of collective bargaining. At the same time, the Ministry
In September 2004 (EU0410205F [1]), a proposal [2] was issued to revise the EU Directive concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time (originally adopted in 1993 and now consolidated in Directive 2003/88/EC [3]) (EU0505205F [4]). This proposal suggests that the opt-out provision -
On 7 June 2005, the Ministry of the Economy (Ministrstvo za gospodarstvo, MG [1]) made public its guidelines for a new draft Law on the Chambers of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), to be drawn up in the near future, which would make membership of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia
On 24 October 2002, parliament adopted amendments to the Law on Retail Trade (LRT), using a shortened procedure, that enabled retailers to determine freely the opening hours of their shops on Sundays and public holidays, though only with the consent of the employees. The Trade Union of Retail
Slovenia has a special payroll tax, the 'tax on paid-out pay', that employers must pay on their employees' wages over a certain level. For almost nine years, the social partners have demanded the abolition of this tax. After the general election held on 3 October 2004, the party which formed the new